It's the same in Alberta. Legions of construction workers leave Atlantic Canada to work in Alberta. It means that Atlantic Canada has a problem holding on to its labourers, which means that executing its infrastructure program becomes more costly and more difficult. The same thing is happening in Ontario.
There's another issue we're hearing about. I got a call from the mayor of North Bay, who said, “I know that my member of the provincial parliament doesn't like these border crossers, but are there any labourers there? We need to build a school.” So you have smaller communities demanding that immigration patterns fit their labour markets, but we're not providing that labour service.
What are we doing to specifically target and upgrade the point system so that instead of allowing doctors quick entry into the country, we allow labourers, who are needed, to come in with the skills they have to go to work immediately? Have we looked at changing the point system so that, instead of prioritizing Ph.D.s and nuclear physicists or whatever, we're actually prioritizing bricklayers, construction workers and marble cutters, the way we did in the 1950s after the Second World War?